Summer is the perfect season to photograph colorful birds.
Reed warbler
The reed warbler arrives in the UK in mid-April and leaves in early October to spend the winter in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a small, slim, plain brown warbler with pointed wings and a rounded tailed. It has a pale rust-coloured rump and tail, pale buff underparts and a white throat which it puffs out when singing. The bill is slender and the legs are grey-brown to blue-grey.
In flight it alternates several rapid wing beats with short glides, but spends most of its time hidden in reeds with just the rustle of stems giving a clue to its presence. Its song is a rhythmic and repetitive sequence of rasps and purrs and it will often sing clinging to an upright stem even before dawn.
During breeding season warblers can be found in reedbeds and swamps. Look out for it in scrubby areas during migration. Reed warblers produce 1 or 2 broods a season and is commonly brood parasitized by the cuckoo. Juveniles can be seen from May.
The reed warbler arrives in the UK in mid-April and leaves in early October to spend the winter in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a small, slim, plain brown warbler with pointed wings and a rounded tailed. It has a pale rust-coloured rump and tail, pale buff underparts and a white throat which it puffs out when singing. The bill is slender and the legs are grey-brown to blue-grey.
In flight it alternates several rapid wing beats with short glides, but spends most of its time hidden in reeds with just the rustle of stems giving a clue to its presence. Its song is a rhythmic and repetitive sequence of rasps and purrs and it will often sing clinging to an upright stem even before dawn.
During breeding season warblers can be found in reedbeds and swamps. Look out for it in scrubby areas during migration. Reed warblers produce 1 or 2 broods a season and is commonly brood parasitized by the cuckoo. Juveniles can be seen from May.
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05 June 2022
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